 Dances with Wolves 1990  PG-13, 183 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Kevin Costner
Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Charles Rocket, Maury Chaykin, Tantoo Cardinal, Robert Pastorelli, Wes Studi, Tony Pierce, Annie Costner, Kirk Baltz, Larry Joshua, Tom Everett
This Academy Award winner for Best Picture is the story of a Union soldier (Kevin Costner) who is sent to a frontier outpost where he befriends a tribe of Sioux Indians. When he grows to appreciate the Indians more than his own race and falls in love with a woman of the tribe, the Army calls him a renegade. Good fare. Costner won an Oscar for Best Director. In all, seven Academy Awards were received along with five nominations, which included Best Actor (Costner), Supporting Actor (Graham Greene), and Supporting Actress (Mary McDonnell). 1 User Review
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| | 02/19/2007 | | it was the best |
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The Education of Little Tree 1997  PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Cast: James Cromwell, Joseph Ashton, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Leni Parker, Mika Boorem, Christopher Heyerdahl, Christopher Fennell, Rebecca Dewey, Bill Rowat
A young Cherokee orphan, Little Tree (James Cromwell), tries to find important meanings of life handed down through his ancestors that are hard to balance with the cruel world he inhabits.
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Heartwood 1998  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lanny Cotler
Cast: Eddie Mills, Hilary Swank, Jason Robards, Randall Batinkoff, John Terry, John Dennis Johnston, Stanley DeSantis, Tantoo Cardinal, Tomas Arana, Muse Watson, Kai Lennox, Kevin Breznahan, Erin Beaux, Jenna Byrne
Sawmill owner Logan Reeser (Jason Robards) comes close to being forced into shutting down his mill when he refuses to strip the nearby forest of its redwood trees. Coming to the rescue is town outcast Frank Burris (Eddie Mills) who falls in love with the mill manager's (John Terry) daughter Sylvia (Hilary Swank). Then, while wandering in the forest, Frank finds gold along the riverbed and comes up with a plan to save the mill and the town as well.
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The Hi-Line 1999 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ron Judkins
Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Ryan Alosio, Tantoo Cardinal, Margot Kidder, Stuart Margolin, Rainer Judd, Peter Walther, Dana Latsch, Philip Winchester, Albert J. Kalanick
Sam (Ryan Alosio) arrives in Vera's (Rachael Leigh Cook) hometown pretending to be interviewing possible employees for a discount store. But, he is really carrying a letter from Vera's deceased father, and, when Vera finds out that her parents adopted her, she sets out with Sam to find her birth mother.
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 Legends of the Fall 1994  R, 133 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Brad Pitt, Henry Thomas, Julia Ormond, Anthony Hopkins, Karina Lombard, Tantoo Cardinal, Kenneth Welsh, Christina Pickles, Gordon Tootoosis
English Col. William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) and his three sons–Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt), and Samuel (Henry Thomas)–live separate lives on their Montana ranch. In a rather confusing plot (with even more confusing characters), the brothers all love the same woman (Julia Ormond). An Oscar was awarded for Best Cinematography. 1 User Review
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| | dee 02/03/2007 | | awesome film 5 stars |
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Navigating the Heart 2000  TV, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Burton Morris
Cast: Jaclyn Smith, Tim Matheson, David Andrews, Tantoo Cardinal, Lynda Boyd, Kevin McNulty, Stephen Dimopoulos, Luc Corbeil, Rob Freeman, Tom Heaton, Frank C. Turner, Alec Willows
Cosmopolitan journalist Edith Iglauer (Jaclyn Smith) travels to British Columbia to write a satiric story in the local fishing industry. There she meets loner fisherman John Daly (Tim Matheson). Though complete opposites, love blossoms as she changes her attitudes about the local way of life as well as about the fishing industry. This made-for-TV film is based on Edith Iglauer's book "Fishing With John."
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Postmark Paradise 2000 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Thompson E. Clay
Cast: Tantoo Cardinal, Natalia Nazarova, Vincent Angelini, Randall Godwin, Dale Inghram, Elmer Cardinal, Donald Phelan, Bil Selzer, Tod Lewis, Joanee Schreves
Set in the small Michigan town of Paradise, the friends of hard-drinking, gruff Jake (Vincent Angelini) think he needs a woman. So, they send off for a Russian mail-order bride, and beautiful Viktoria (Natalia Nazarova) arrives. She is disappointed in what she sees, and Reenie (Tantoo Cardinal), the only barmaid at the only bar in town, takes her in. The two bond, and Reenie gets a job for Viktoria at the bar while the two figure out how to raise money to send Viktoria home.
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Sioux City 1994 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
aka: Ultimate Revenge
Director: Lou Diamond Phillips
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Ralph Waite, Salli Richardson, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter, Bill Allen, Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Farmer, Apesanahkwat, John Dye, Michael Corbett, Adam Roarke
As an infant, Dr. Jesse Rainfeather Goldman (Lou Diamond Phillips) was given up for adoption. One of the few memories he has of his birth mother involve beatings by an unidentified man. When he goes back to Nebraska to find his mother, he learns that she had died in a fire just a few days before. After discussing the fire with police, his opinion that she was murdered is not popular, and he is beaten later by police officers. His next step is to study his tribe's customs, which leads to performing a ritual in which he contacts his mother's soul hoping for answers to the puzzle.
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Smoke Signals 1998  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Chris Eyre
Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal, Cody Lightning, Michelle St. John, Tom Skerritt, Simon Baker, Monique Mojica
Native Americans made this film about young, unpopular Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams) who offers to drive Victor Joseph to Phoenix to pick up his father's remains. Although Thomas tells long boring stories to occupy the time, the two become friends by the end of the journey.
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| 1. Black Robe (1991)
2. Dances with Wolves (1990)
3. The Education of Little Tree (1997)
4. Heartwood (1998)
5. The Hi-Line (1999)
6. Legends of the Fall (1994)
7. Navigating the Heart (2000)
8. Postmark Paradise (2000)
9. Sioux City (1994)
aka: Ultimate Revenge
10. Smoke Signals (1998)
11. Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)
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